Hal

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In Amy Scott’s comprehensive and affectionate documentary, the capricious life and career of one of Hollywood’s iconic filmmakers, Hal Ashby, is brought to light. Deftly weaving archival footage, on-camera interviews, and Ashby’s jocular letters and memos (expertly voiced by Ben Foster), Scott reveals a complex and singular visionary who directed some of the most seminal films of the 1970s including the indelible HAROLD AND MAUDE (1971), THE LAST DETAIL (1973), and BEING THERE (1979).

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USA

Amy Scott began her filmmaking and editing career in Chicago after getting her degree in Film Studies at University of Oklahoma. She taught documentary film at Chicago Filmmaker, was a media producer for the University of Chicago, and served as head digital archivist and assistant to Studs Terkel at the Chicago History Museum. Now based in Los Angeles, she worked on a number of shorts, music, videos, and films prior to making her directorial debut with HAL, which screened in San Francisco FF 2018.